Festival Park in Newport (pictured) would be linked to the Covington riverfront by Riverfront Commons, which is the centerpiece of a new plan for riverfront development.

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By the year 2020, Northern Kentucky leaders envision a riverfront region filled with new developments and projects, both large and small, that create a bustling, vibrant place to live, work and play.

That's the vision behind Imagination 2020, a new plan for riverfront development that will be unveiled today to city and community leaders.

Led by Newport-based Southbank Partners, the riverfront economic development agency, Imagination 2020 was developed over the past year with input from dozens of officials and community leaders from the six riverfront cities. Southbank hired ...